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They regularly file it under the top ten podcasts in their comedy section. So why? What's all the fuss about? Well, you're about to find out if you're new. Here's the phone number. 035, 6060973. You'll only hear me say those numbers when I have phone lines free. And this is by some distance the busiest hour of the week. Don't be put off,'ve got to be in it to win it and an awful lot of people ring in with questions that have to be

politely rejected so in order to avoid that grisily fate don't ring in with something boring and don't

ring in with something repetitious repetition probably harder to avoid than dullness the who the why the what the where what, the where, the when, the whither or the wents.

Here's the question. Why do we do that? Where does that come from? What is this? What is

that? Why, why, why? What? What? Where? Where? And you don't know the answer,

but somebody does. You've seen the newspaper columns where a reader will write in and then

weeks for another reader to provide an answer. Well, this provides almost instant gratification because the other point is if you hear somebody ask a question that you know the answer to, you have to ring in with the answer and the number remains the same. I think that's pretty much it actually. I don't know why I go through the rubric every week.

If you've never listened to it before, you can work it out by ten past just by listening to the sort of questions that we take.

But generally speaking, if your question is likely, if the answer to your question is likely only to be of interest to you, don't ring in with it. It needs to be something that's going to make me and everybody else listening go, oh, I can't wait to find out. Oh, I've never thought about that. Oh, yes. That's what we're

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